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Very interested in this subject. Is there a comprehensive guide on how I can pull this off TODAY with e.g. AWS?

eropple 11y ago
It's only one piece of the puzzle, but at my last company I wrote deploy_thing[1] for exactly this. An immutable config bundle and an immutable artifact tag combine to create a deploy that can be launched and put into production with an AWS auto-scaling group. Need to change a configuration, you burn down the auto-scaling group. This was a transitional step for us before moving to Mesos, but it's a good example, I think, of how to approach the problem from a minimum-viable level. (I'm currently playing with moving it to OpenStack.) [1] https://github.com/eropple/deploy_thing https://github.com/eropple/deploy_thing
- bender80 11y ago
  The URL is throwing 404, probably due to it being private. Would love to see it. I am working on something similar.
  - zerocrates 11y ago
    It looks like it was supposed to a hyphen, not an underscore: https://github.com/eropple/deploy-thing https://github.com/eropple/deploy-thing
    - eropple 11y ago
      Whoops, yeah. My bad, I switched from an underscore to a hyphen halfway through the project. It's still inconsistent, because we had a case of company-going-unders and I haven't needed it since.
yo-code-sucks 11y ago
Make a dockerfile, make sure it works and you understand it. Then go into Elastic Beanstalk and click new application and there is an option for loading a dockerfile, boom. For you this may work, for me it's more complex.
parasubvert 11y ago
With containers, there's http://lattice.cf http://lattice.cf , which deploys Docker containers in this style with routing and load balancing; it's a simplified version of Cloud Foundry. With VMs, there's http://bosh.io http://bosh.io which has a bit of a learning curve but is ground up designed to be about designing & deploying immutable software releases
axelfontaine 11y ago
If you are on the JVM, our service does exactly this today: https://boxfuse.com https://boxfuse.com No base images, minimal immutable images generated on the fly with only what your application needs, directly deployable on VirtualBox and AWS, with zero downtime updates using ELBs or Elastic IPs.
olalonde 11y ago
Deis is relatively simple to install and get started with (http://deis.io http://deis.io). They have a CloudFormation config to deploy on AWS.
Darragh_Hayes 11y ago
At nearForm we're also very interested in this, which is why we've been working on nscale - our own deployment solution. v0.16 was released yesterday featuring autoscaling support. "nscale is an open toolkit supporting configuration, build and deployment of connected container sets. nscale is ideally used to support the development and operation of microservice based systems." https://github.com/nearform/nscale https://github.com/nearform/nscale Here's an interesting blog post written about the deployment immutable systems. http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/deployment-how-to-do-it-fast-safely-and-reliably/ http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/deployment-how-to-do-it-f...

It's only one piece of the puzzle, but at my last company I wrote deploy_thing[1] for exactly this. An immutable config bundle and an immutable artifact tag combine to create a deploy that can be launched and put into production with an AWS auto-scaling group. Need to change a configuration, you burn down the auto-scaling group. This was a transitional step for us before moving to Mesos, but it's a good example, I think, of how to approach the problem from a minimum-viable level. (I'm currently playing with moving it to OpenStack.) [1] https://github.com/eropple/deploy_thing https://github.com/eropple/deploy_thing

bender80 11y ago
The URL is throwing 404, probably due to it being private. Would love to see it. I am working on something similar.
- zerocrates 11y ago
  It looks like it was supposed to a hyphen, not an underscore: https://github.com/eropple/deploy-thing https://github.com/eropple/deploy-thing
  - eropple 11y ago
    Whoops, yeah. My bad, I switched from an underscore to a hyphen halfway through the project. It's still inconsistent, because we had a case of company-going-unders and I haven't needed it since.

yo-code-sucks 11y ago

Make a dockerfile, make sure it works and you understand it. Then go into Elastic Beanstalk and click new application and there is an option for loading a dockerfile, boom. For you this may work, for me it's more complex.

parasubvert 11y ago

With containers, there's http://lattice.cf http://lattice.cf , which deploys Docker containers in this style with routing and load balancing; it's a simplified version of Cloud Foundry. With VMs, there's http://bosh.io http://bosh.io which has a bit of a learning curve but is ground up designed to be about designing & deploying immutable software releases

axelfontaine 11y ago

If you are on the JVM, our service does exactly this today: https://boxfuse.com https://boxfuse.com No base images, minimal immutable images generated on the fly with only what your application needs, directly deployable on VirtualBox and AWS, with zero downtime updates using ELBs or Elastic IPs.

olalonde 11y ago

Deis is relatively simple to install and get started with (http://deis.io http://deis.io). They have a CloudFormation config to deploy on AWS.

Darragh_Hayes 11y ago

At nearForm we're also very interested in this, which is why we've been working on nscale - our own deployment solution. v0.16 was released yesterday featuring autoscaling support. "nscale is an open toolkit supporting configuration, build and deployment of connected container sets. nscale is ideally used to support the development and operation of microservice based systems." https://github.com/nearform/nscale https://github.com/nearform/nscale Here's an interesting blog post written about the deployment immutable systems. http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/deployment-how-to-do-it-fast-safely-and-reliably/ http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/deployment-how-to-do-it-f...